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Farming & the land, 1882

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How to Make Superior Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 20

RECENTLY we published an article concerning how bad butter is made, and are glad to give the other side of the picture. At the annual convention of the American Dairymen's Association Professor Lewis,…

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Good Advice to Butter-makers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 19

Some advice in the matter of butter-making has lately been given by a writer in the Agricultural Gazette, which at least may be listened to, if not followed, by many dairymen in this colony…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 853

May is not leaving the colony without affording its share of rain. Queen's Birthday brought a welcome change; and citizens, although they did suffer some inconveniences, rejoiced to find that many districts inland were…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electri Telegraph.] Melbourne

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 38

Messrs. King and Cuningham report:—Fat Cattle: 189[?] are forward, the majority being only medium. Best pens brought to £14, good to £11 10s, medium £9.Cows:Best brought to £8, good to £6 10s. Prices are about the same…

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The Grazier. Treatment of Cattle in America

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 19

It is not only by the superiority of their feeding that the Americans excel as exporters of meat for the British market. They also study carefully the treatment of their stock while in transit to the…

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The Wool Sales and Commercial

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 9

LONDON, May 17.—Consols, 102?. Six per cent. Tasmanian loan (1893-1901), £118. Tin: Straits and Australian, £97. Copper[?] Wallaroo, £72. Adelaide wheat, 53s; flour,…

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The Wool Sales Now On

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 19

THE latest reports to hand indicate a disposition towards lower rates in the sales now on; but this is not likely to be the case longer than is necessary to allow the full contingent of British and foreign…

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London Wool Sales. London, May 25

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 5

At the wool sales today 11,700 bales were offered. The demand was good, and 4000 bales were withdrawn…

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Wool Prospects from an English Point of View

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 19

THE "Bradford Observer" discusses the situation in this manner:—The nation is said to be happy whose annals are few. If the maxim were equally true of the wool trade, the scanty annals of the past…

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To Save the Potato Crop From Frost-bite

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 19

DURING the coming winter it will be money in the farmer's pocket to know how he may save his potato crop from the injury which frosty nights are able to work Upon it. One good way is to…

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The Farmer and Grazier

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 19

We shall be happy to receive from practical, farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land, crops, and stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…

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Farming in Victoria

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 838

The agricultural statistics of Victoria for the year ended last March, which were published almost in full' in our last issue, show such an extraordinary decrease in the land under tillage, and such a remarkable falling…

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Two Novelties for Farmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 838

It affords us pleasure to illustrate in this issue two interesting novel machines recently imported by Messrs. Lassetter and Co., of this city. One is the Perpetual Hay Press, the first ever landed in this colony; the other, a…

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Colonial and Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 May 1882 · page 37

THE WHEAT MARKET.—The market is fairly well supplied with various kinds, with the exception only of Victorian; and on the whole there is an easier feeling, especially for New Zealand samples,…

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London Wool Sales. London, May 26

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 May 1882 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 10,200 bales were offered. Prices were firmly maintained except for coarse merinos, which were [?]d to [?]d lower. The rales will be suspended till Wednesday on…

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Mudgee Sheep Show. MUDGEE

Evening News · Wednesday 31 May 1882 · page 5

For the Mudgee Sheep Show to-day the weather was wet and the attendance small. The exhibits were good, and numbered 84 in 13 sections. Messrs. James Lee, C. W. Lawson, A. H…

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Mudgee Sheep Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mudgee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1882 · page 6

The Mudgee Sheep Show was held to-day, during a continuous and heavy fall of rain which prevented a large attendance The sheep exhibits were both numerous and good, fully maintaining the high reputation of…

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Wheat Groving. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 May 1882 · page 3

Sir,--I was glad to see Mr, Wearne's letter on wheat-growing in your paper, as there are few person who can have more experience on the subject than the writer. The quantity of wheat cutdown…

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The Weather—agrtcultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 June 1882 · page 7

The 1832 drought, which will be long remembered as having been the cause of many losses to the graziers of this colony, is broken up. Monday last brought a rain which proved general, and nearly all…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 2 June 1882 · page 2

LONDON, May 31.—At the sales to-day 11,100 bales were catalogued, for which there was a good competition at full current rates…

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